The Wikipedia definition seems to indicate it has origins as a racist term and I’ve never understood why unix users have adopted this terms instead of something benign like “themes” or “theming” which I remember being in use long before I ever heard “rice”. So what gives? Why use “rice” instead of “theme”?
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@const_void nobody cares. If you enter the Linux customization community, see the word “ricer” or “rice”, and get offended, you probably need a break from the internet.
You can just say that you don’t care. You don’t need to frame your opinion as belonging to hundreds of people, none of whom asked you to.
And of course people in the community don’t care. If they did, they wouldn’t have joined the community.
I don’t think it’s racist. I just don’t like it. Themes or theming works for me. It just makes me think of the kids who install kali and describe themselves as haxors.
I don’t know but it seems like it’s a 'nix thing.
I was in the Windows customization scene for years and never heard the term “ricing” until I discovered customization on Linux.
bro take your pills
No need to be rude
I’m surprised to see it suddenly in wide use here, honestly. I’ve been ‘in the linux community’ for 25 years or so and only started seeing people use it in this context in the last month. Jarring isn’t the right word but it seems sudden to me knowing the connotations from the mid-to-late 90s car culture.
It’s from 4chan /g/, it’s been in use for at least a decade there, probably longer
That is the absolute least-surprising explanation.
I thought it had to do with the fact that most themes on Linux consist of a large collection of dotfiles, dots, rice. But that might just be me
No, it originally was a derogatory term for people who modify japanese cars. Then it began to apply to shoddy or garish modifications to any car. Then people started using it to mean modifying something to their own tastes.
I only know the term form car tuning. And specifically used for tricked out Japanese cars. The term picked up steam after Need for Speed - Tokyo drift.
Besides that it’s also used for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. Only cosmetics and no performance, the opposite of a sleeper car. In this case it’s a bad thing. And if a word is used in a bad way and has a possible race connection in can be considered racist. If someone feels offended because an it’s race related, just assume it’s racist.
